Justice William H. Combs
(Thirty-second Justice)

Justice Combs was born July 17, 1808, in Brunswick, Maine.⁹⁶ His date and place of death are unknown.

He was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio.⁹⁷ He moved to Connersville, Indiana in 1831, studied law, and was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1834.⁹⁸ On December 2, 1882, he was appointed to fill the vacancy on the Indiana Supreme Court created by the resignation of Justice Worden.⁹⁹ He served just one month when he was succeeded on January 1, 1883 by Justice Zollars.¹⁰⁰

Source: Browning, Minde C., Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt. "Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices." Indiana Law Review: Vol. 30, No. 1, 1997. View this source in PDF format.